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Jul 17
Farewells and successes!
Wow! What an absolutely incredible year we have had in Reception. Kingfishers and Teals have all been SUPERSTARS! We have loved every minute of our time together – we have built many positive relationships, learned a lot, had fun and achieved so much this year! Here are some of our favourite moments – from theatre …
Jul 09
Receptions Trip to Tring Museum
Our Reception children had a fantastic day on their trip to Tring Museum! The excitement started as soon as we boarded the coach, and we were so proud of how well the children listened to the adults throughout the day. After a quick snack, we took part in a wonderful mini beast workshop, exploring a …
Jul 03
This week in Reception
Over this half term, we have been developing our Expressive Art and Design skills. We have had a big focus on designing, joining materials, and creating things for a purpose. We have been repurposing items to turn them into boats. This links to our learning about caring for the environment and recycling. Each week we …
Jun 25
Fun in the Sun
We have had a very hot week this week and the children have coped brilliantly while continuing to engage in their learning activities. A big focus this week has been staying safe in the sun. The children have been doing a great job remembering to wear their hats and drink plenty of water throughout the …
Jun 19
This week in Reception
This week in Reception, we have been busy show casing the many skills we have learned over the year! We welcomed some new to Merry Hill friends and showed them how to follow the Merry Hill Way by demonstrating teamwork, resilience, communication and inclusion. We also had fun practising our teamwork and communication skills whilst …
Jun 12
A Very Merry (Hill) Theatre Visit
This week we were so lucky to be given the opportunity by our wonderful Friends of Merry Hill to go to a real theatre to see a show! The very kind Friends of Merry Hill decided to treat us after a year of working hard and doing our best! We travelled to Radlett Theatre by …
Jun 04
Literacy
In Literacy, Reception have been exploring their exciting new topic, The Natural World. The children used their imaginations to think about the different things they might see, hear, smell, touch and feel when walking through a forest. They then chose something they love about nature and created a front cover using the sentence stem, “I …
May 22
This Week in Reception
This week in Reception, we have been discussing the different weather as part of our daily calendar. We have found it very interesting and keep changing our weather window symbol – it has been quite funny swapping it from cloudy, to sunny, to rainy! It has prompted a lot of discussion about how quickly the …
May 15
Phonics and Habitats
The children in Reception are continuing to make fantastic progress in phonics and should be very proud of how well they are doing! They are growing in confidence when sounding out and blending sounds to help them write words independently, and many are beginning to use their phonics knowledge naturally within sentences. It has also …
Apr 30
Recycling!
This week in Reception we have been looking at our Earth and how we can take care of it. In our garden, we were learning to take care of it by collecting all the litter we found. We also had to litter pick all the rubbish in the sand pit that had blown in over …